Godwin Obaseki, Edo State Governor, has stated why he was busy sleeping why President Muhammadu Buhari was delivering his speech at the United Nation’s conference in New York.

Pictures of Mr Obaseki sleeping at the occasion had flooded the internet early Wednesday morning.

But reacting to the development, the governor in a statement signed by his special adviser on media and communication strategy, Crusoe Osagie, said he was not the only one that has slept at an international gathering.

He said the internet is awash with photographs of outstanding world leaders who have at one time or the other yielded to fatigue at meetings.



“Our attention has been drawn to a mischievous campaign designed to smear the image of the Edo State Governor, Mr. Governor Obaseki.

“The disparagers have populated the internet with photographs of the governor when he momentarily succumbed to fatigue after a long flight, preceded by a chaotic itinerary in Edo State before heading to New York for the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, in the United States of America.

“The idle hands and mischievous minds behind the smear campaign against governor Obaseki are clearly not people to be taken seriously.”